| City and County of San Francisco Sheriff's Office | |
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 Seal of the San Francisco Sheriff's Office | |
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| Common name | San Francisco Sheriff's Office |
| Abbreviation | SFSO |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1850 |
| Employees | 950 |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | San Francisco, California, United States |
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| Jurisdiction of San Francisco Sheriff's Department | |
| Legal jurisdiction | As per operations jurisdiction |
| Operational structure | |
| Deputies | 850 |
| Civilian employees | 100 |
| Sheriff responsible | |
| Facilities | |
| Jails | 8 |
| Website | |
| http://www.sfsheriff.com/ | |
The San Francisco Sheriff's Office (SFSO), officially the City and County of San Francisco Sheriff's Office, is the sheriff's office for the City and County of San Francisco. The current sheriff is Paul Miyamoto. The department has 850 deputized personnel and support staff. The SFSO is a separate organization from the San Francisco Police Department. However, SFSO deputies and SFPD officers have all attended a POST-mandated police academy, and are duly sworn California peace officers.
The primary function of the SFSO is to operate the system of county jails where there is an average population of 2,200 inmates, and a number of individuals on supervised release programs.
The SFSO also provides security and law enforcement in the following locations in San Francisco: the civil and criminal court, City Hall, the Emergency Communications & Dispatch center, and the San Francisco General Hospital, Laguna Honda Hospital, and several public health clinics.